http://www.sfweekly.com/Issues/2006-11-29/news/feature_full.html
This is a must read story, about the inner workings of the San Francisco Chronicle as it tries to move from being a newspaper to being an information company - so says the story, but it goes on to be one of the better descriptions of what is playing out inside of many newspapers today - here's a quote:
"If there is one consistent thing about the Chronicle nowadays, it's inconsistency. Editors there prefer the word "unpredictability." The paper still leads with some stories of enormous import to millions of Bay Area residents, from law to economics to the environment. And every once in a while the paper will wow the public with a big investigative project that took months to complete, illustrating the Chronicle's potential for greatness. "Perhaps," wrote Lori Robertson last fall in American Journalism Review, "'unevenness' is the true indicator of a paper trying to find its way, hang on to big ambitions, and do it all with fewer resources."
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